# Bing Maps

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Bing Maps and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People on Hacker News recommend Bing Maps for map data they find high quality and regularly updated. The one caveat raised is that some of its map content looks outdated.

## Why people recommend it

- High quality, regularly updated map data (1 comments): "much of it high quality and regularly updated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527612))

## What people warn about

- Map content looks out of date (1 comments): "Bing maps seems to be entirely pre-war as far as I can tell" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822614))
- Criticized for caving on Gulf of Mexico (1 comments): "they caved on the Gulf of Mexico" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525173))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [StreetComplete](https://hackerapproved.com/p/streetcomplete.md): 93 recommend
- [Google Earth](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-earth.md): 31 recommend
- [OS9Map](https://hackerapproved.com/p/os9map.md): 9 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.bing.com/maps)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bing Maps", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bing-maps/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).